perspective
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Under the trained eye
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2 min read
The eye works as a paintbrush, coloring the world with a palette of vitality. Unfortunately, the constant bombardment of external stimuli torpedoes our attention, bankrupting what’s interesting. After all, the attention merchants plant eye candy and other UX wiles to captivate us and throw us into a ludic loop. But we can see our way…
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The all-important gaze
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1 min read
Stuck in a default state of distractedness, we look away for the next magnetic clue. As the gaze proceeds, a sense of familiarity comes to our aid to help us navigate our way in the world. But most of what we perceive is just noise, impeding both our short-term goals and long-term moon shots. We often…
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What are we missing here?
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1 min read
We either open up possibilities for inquiry or close them. The open-minded tend to include those around them. The shallow-minded prefer to isolate others as a means to an end. Such subjectivity halts the evolution of ideas. “Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.” William James Attitude predetermines…
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What imprints the outlook
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1 min read
You have to cultivate everything: awareness, happiness, aloofness, sadness, the yin, and yang. Nothing comes naturally, although genetics are known to preprogram our inclinations. People are constantly surveying, digesting the world around them. So they must also decide what sticks and what doesn’t. Inner and outer feelings express themselves as lifestyles. Fashioning one as an…
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Balancing effort
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1 min read
There’s an inverse relationship between forcing something to happen and achieving it. When you take your foot off the gas and relax a little, that’s when things start to open up. Going 100ph all the time is a recipe for disaster. “When you try to stay on the surface of the water, you sink; but…
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In fact, he really wasn’t open to possibilities at all, now that she thought about it. How very odd it was, she thought, to live your life so decisively, to be so sure of how everything should be, as if everything in life was black and white instead of various shades of gray. — Karen…